Short and ends abruptly but I'm much too tired to work on it anymore =).
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"Jane isn't my real name."
Thane paused in threading his fingers through her hair but didn't speak.
"Shepard isn't either."
Thane continued stroking the dark glossy strands and hummed a deep note. "I see."
Jane shifted restlessly, moving off his chest to stare at the stars through the port above her bed. She didn't know why she had brought it up but now that she had, she wondered if she should tell him. About her childhood, about Jane, about how once she was an angry, hurting kid with a gun and someone to use it on.
Thane had moved and was watching her now, a low soothing sound coming from his throat. She looked up and met his eyes. He was curious, she could tell, but he didn't press her, didn't ask for more than she was ready to give.
Thirding the awesomeness of Earthborns who aren't actually Shepard! (My Alex picked her name for herself when she enlisted because Starling was what the Reds had called her)
The vids liked to portray the first touch of destined lovers with slow-motion close-ups, portraying a "spark," or something that lets the viewers know without a shadow of a doubt that these two will end up together by the end of the movie
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Re: First contactsiujerkjaiJuly 11 2012, 17:08:50 UTC
I love it when people go in a direction with a prompt that I didn't even think of. Each one of these on its own would have been a well-fitting drabble. I think the last is my favorite. :)
Re: First contactrose_in_shadowJuly 11 2012, 17:43:58 UTC
Thanks! Yeah, I'm not sure what sparked it because I read through the list of prompts when it was first posted and didn't have any ideas. Then much later there it was. Guess it had to percolate a little. :D
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I got an image of Shepard as the food fairy reading this. *snicker*
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"Jane isn't my real name."
Thane paused in threading his fingers through her hair but didn't speak.
"Shepard isn't either."
Thane continued stroking the dark glossy strands and hummed a deep note. "I see."
Jane shifted restlessly, moving off his chest to stare at the stars through the port above her bed. She didn't know why she had brought it up but now that she had, she wondered if she should tell him. About her childhood, about Jane, about how once she was an angry, hurting kid with a gun and someone to use it on.
Thane had moved and was watching her now, a low soothing sound coming from his throat. She looked up and met his eyes. He was curious, she could tell, but he didn't press her, didn't ask for more than she was ready to give.
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Prompts:
-Rain
-Sun
-Subzero
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